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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

William James

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

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